Cabell's Contributions to Books
PROMETHEANS: Ancient and Modern, by Burton Rascoe
Hall Code |
Description |
Cabell Contribution(s) |
*A22a |
First Printing, Limited 1933 |
Untitled letter |
COMPILATION
Full Title:
Title page recto: [all enclosed in a triple ruled box] PROMETHEANS | ANCIENT AND MODERN | [device of six pointed star] | BY BURTON RASCOE | [publisher's device] | G • P • PUTNAM'S SONS • 1933 | NEW YORK AND LONDON (see image above).
Title page verso: COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY BURTON RASCOE | All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must | not be reproduced in any form without permission. | MANUFACTURED | IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | AT THE VAN REES PRESS (see image above).
Publication:
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1933
Collation:
Medium octavo [24 cm. (9 7/16-in.) x 16.3 cm. (6 7/16-in.)]; 2 leaves not counted in pagination + 296; (1) half-title; (2) Also by Burton Rascoe; [leaf not counted in pagination] recto limitation page, verso blank; [leaf not counted in pagination] recto blank, verso frontispiece; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) dedication (verso blank); 7-11 Introduction: To the Reader (verso blank); (13) Contents (verso blank); (15) fly-title: Prometheans (verso blank); (17) fly-title: Saint Mark (verso blank); 19-287 text (verso blank); 289-296 Index. Pp. (6), (12), (14), (16), (18), (84), (86), (116), (118), (174), (192), (208), (218), (220), (240), (270), (272), and (288) are blanks. Pp. (15), (17), (85), (117), (173), (191), (207), (219), (239), and (271) are fly-titles.
Binding:
Aqua cloth; gilt lettering and blind stamped decoration on spine and front cover; all edges trimmed. Spine: [heavy rule over two thin rules, all blind stamped] | PROMETHEANS | • | BURTON RASCOE | [thin rule over heavy rule over thin rule, all blind stamped, all repeated four times] | PUTNAM | [two thin rules over heavy rule, all blind stamped]. Front cover: [heavy rule over two thin rules, all blind stamped] | PROMETHEANS | BURTON RASCOE | [two thin rules over heavy rule, all blind stamped] | [blind stamped device of torch] (see image above).
Frontispiece:
[Greyscale classical style drawing of bust of Lucian in an oval border] | [flush right, in italic] Courtesy Robert Fridenberg Galleries, New York (see image above).
Limitation:
[in italic] 125 copies of the First Edtion of this book inscribed by the | author for customers of The Argus Bookshop, Inc. | [three line autograph inscription followed by author's signature] (see image above).
Dedication:
TO | MY MOTHER (see image above).
Endpapers:
Plain cream paper.
Dust jacket:
Cream paper; black lettering; silver, black and blue decorations (see image above).
Spine: [three silver rules] | [black rule] | [on a silver ground] PROME- | THEANS | ANCIENT AND | MODERN | [in decorative script] by | Burton Rascoe | [black rule] | [on a cream ground] BY THE AUTHOR OF |
TITANS OF | LITERATURE | [silver rule over black rule] | [on a silver ground] PUTNAM | [two silver rules]|
Front panel: [lettered up the left quarter] PROMETHEANS | [right side] [blue rule | [on a blue ground] BY THE AUTHOR OF | TITANS OF LITERATURE | [blue rule] | [black rule] | [on a blue ground] PROMETHEANS | ANCIENT AND | MODERN | [black rule] | [n decorative script] by Burton Rascoe | [blue rule] | [black rule] | [flush right, on a blue ground] G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS | NEW YORK | [two blue rules]
Rear panel: [blue rule] | [black rule] | TITANS OF LITERATURE | [blue rule] | THEY WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS | [blue rule] | [excerpts from ten reviews of Titans of Literature] | [blue rule] | [n decorative script] by Burton Rascoe | [black rule] | [blue rule]
Front flap: [flush right] 2.75 | PROMETHEANS | Ancient and Modern | BY BURTON RASCOE | [52-line blurb in five paragraphs]
Rear flap:[flush right] 3.75 | TITANS OF | LITERATURE | From Homer to the Present | BY BURTON RASCOE | [48-line blurb in three paragraphs]
Notes:
This work is a collection of nine "Prometheans" of literature, of whom Mr. Cabell is one. His contribution is a lengthy, untitled excerpt from a letter from to Rascoe dated August 10, 1919, discussing the evolution of Jurgen (pp. 283-286).
Burton Rascoe was, of course, the dedicatee of Jurgen.